Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs,
usually referred to as simply Animaniacs, is
an American animated series, distributed by Warner Bros.
Produced by Amblin Enter- tainment and Warner Bros. Animation.
The cartoon was the second animated series produced
by the collaboration of Steven Spielberg and Warner
Bros. This animation was done during the animation
renaissance of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Animaniacs had a variety of music
types. Many Animaniacs songs were parodies of classical
or folk music with a educational lyrics, such as
Yakko listing the "Nations of the World" to the tune of
the Mexican Hat Dance.

Click 'HERE'
to see all the nations of the world shown and their names stated in song
in under two minutes. This video is very cute.

The tradition of building castells
originated in Valls, near the city of Tarragona,
Spain, in the southern part of Catalonia towards the end
of the 18th century.

A castell is considered a success
when stages of its assembling and disassembling,
can be done in complete succession. The assembly
is complete once all castellers have climbed into their designated
places, and the enxaneta climbs into place at
the top and raises one hand with four fingers erect.
The highest towers have a height spanning of nine or
ten people from ground up.

Adorable five-year-old genius
Arden Hayes demonstrates his incredible wealth of knowledge
in world geography on his second visit to the Jimmy Kimmel
Live Show. Click 'HERE' to see young Arden on Jimmy's
TV show.

The Pale Blue Dot is a photograph
of planet Earth taken in 1990 by Voyager 1 from a
record distance, showing it against the vastness of space.
By request of Carl Sagan, NASA commanded the Voyager 1
spacecraft, having completed its primary mission and now
leaving the solar system, to turn its camera around and to
take a photograph of Earth. It was subsequently used by
Sagan as the title of his 1994 book of the same name.
Click 'HERE' to see this wonderful, thoughtful video.

Located near the historic center of
Sintra,Portugal lies the Quinta da Regaleira
- aspectacular estate that sits in a
WorldHeritage protected landscape.
While thousandsof tourists flock to the castle every
year toadmire the unique architecture of
the Quintade Regaleira that combines Gothic,
Egyptian,Moorish and Renaissance features,
one of itsmost fascinating features is located
beneaththe ground - a pair of wells spiraling
deepwithin the earth. The wells were never
used,nor intended for water collection.
Instead,these mysterious underground towers
were usedfor secretive initiation rites.

At the bottom of one of the wells there
is acompass over a Knights Templar cross,
which issaid to have been Monteiro's
herald and a signof his Rosicrucianism.

Every two years people can admire
the carpet of flowers on the Grand Place in Brussels.
This year, 700,000 begonias form the largest tapestry of
the Savonnerie in the world. You can see four photos and
two videos by clicking 'HERE'.

Have you ever wondered where
and how yodeling began? California? Oregon? Switzerland?
Most believe it originated in Switzerland, but
here's the real version.

Many years ago a man was traveling
through the mountains of Switzerland. Nightfall
was rapidly approaching and he had nowhere to sleep. He went
up to a farmhouse and asked the farmer if he could spend the
night. The farmer told him that he could sleep in the barn.

As the story goes, the farmer's
daughter came down from upstairs and asked her father,
"Who is that man going into the barn?"

"That's some fellow traveling
through," said the farmer. "He needs a place to stay for
the night, so I said he could sleep in the barn."

The daughter said, "Perhaps he
is hungry." So she prepared him a plate of food and took
it out to the barn.

About an hour later, the daughter
returned. Her clothing disheveled and straw in her
hair. Straight up to bed she went.

The farmer's wife was very observant.
She then suggested that perhaps the man was thirsty.
So she fetched a bottle of wine, took it out to the
barn, and she too did not return for an hour. Her
clothing was askew, her blouse buttoned incorrectly and her
hair all messed up. She also headed straight to bed.

The next morning at sunrise the
man in the barn got up and continued on his journey, waving
to the farmer as he left. When the daughter awoke and
learned that the visitor was gone, she broke into tears.
"How could he leave without even saying goodbye," she cried.
"We made such passionate love last night!"

"What?" shouted the father as
he angrily ran out of the house looking for the man, who
by now was halfway up the mountain. The farmer screamed
up at him, "I'm going to get you! You had sex with my
daughter!"

The man looked back down from
the mountainside, cupped his hand next to his mouth, and
yelled out, "LAIDTHEOLADEETOO."

This is a single-pipe alpine
coaster in Mieders, Austria. You reach the summit via a cablecar
and then sit on a small car with a brake lever and off
you go. Having ridden it once using a little braking,
I decided to try it a second time without using the brakes.

Click 'HERE'
to enjoy this jaw dropping, high-speed, brake- less journey down the mountain.
This is SCARY!

Subj:
A Village With No Roads In Holland (S671b)
From: darrellvip on 11/19/2009..........Source:
(Removed from funlobby.com)

Giethoorn, a village in the Dutch
province of Overijssel, is an international tourist
attraction in the Netherlands. In the old part of the village,
there were no roads and all transport was done by water.
Now there is a cycling path. Click 'HERE'
to see fourteen photos of this very beautiful village.

Subj:
"Getting it Done" in the Third World (S580)
From: ginafm on 3/2/2008

These fifteen photos are impressive
illustrations of creativity, and stupidity. Click 'HERE'
to view them.

TopSubj: Speaking
Many Languages (S325b)
From: LABLaughs.com on 4/21/03 A person who speaks two languages
is bilingual...A person who speaks three languages is
trilingual...A person who speaks four or more languages
is multilingual.

Belgian Television News captures
the story of a bizarre man with a marble addiction.
Click 'HERE' for my copy, to see this strange story.

When I was twelve years old,
every kid in my neighborhood built a marble shoot in their
closet. We would see whose shoot would take the longest
for the marble to reach the floor. No one wanted to
destroy their shoots, but we needed the stuff on the shelves.
Today I'm hooked on bridge, Zoo World, and collecting jokes,
so I can relate to this happy, strange, old man.

Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.

Percentage of Africa that is
wilderness: 28% Percentage of North America
that is wilderness: 38%

Iceland consumes more Coca-Cola
per capita than any other nation.

The only nation who's name begins
with an "A", but doesn't end in an "A" is Afghanistan.

From: joke-of-the-day.com on 4/2/2003
(S322b) If you reject the food, ignore
the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people,
you should just stay home. -- James Michener

From: JBCARY1 on 8/22/2001 (S238) Q: What do Eskimos get from
sitting on the ice too long? A: Polaroids.

From: igiggle on 1/23/2006 (S471c) Q: If a man was born in Australia,
worked in America and died in Europe,
what is he? A: Dead

From: LABLaughs.com on 4/27/2007 (S540b) Q: What do you call a Korean
family with just one dog? A: Vegetarians